And the servant's fly has been visited, ransacked inside and out, footmen questioned; we have not left anything we can conceive of undone.

My lord, will you suggest ?' 'The intrinsic value of the gems would not be worth--not worth Aminta's one beat of the heart.

Upon my word--not one!' An amatory knightly compliment breasting her perturbation roused an unwonted spite; and a swift reflection on it startled her with a suspicion.

She cast it behind her.

He could be angler and fish, he would not be cat and mouse.
She said, however, more temperately: 'It is not the value of the gems.
We are losing precious minutes!' 'Association of them with the giver?
Is it that?
If that has a value for you, he is flattered.' This betrayed him to the woman waxing as intensely susceptible in all her being as powder to sparks.
'There is to be no misunderstanding, my lord,' she said.